About Jeff

Being a late-comer to the equine world, Jeff Thomas did not have the typical beginning of a horse trainer.  Not getting his first horse until he was thirteen years old, Jeff’s goals were to have a back yard pet and trail riding horse.  However it wasn’t long before he became active in competing at local speed shows and learning team roping.  It was during his experiences training his own horses for these events that he came to realize he enjoyed teaching horses and wanted to continue to work with them.

Jeff’s training career began when a friend asked him to work with their horse.  It was that first horse that really got him pursuing opportunities to keep training horses.  Over the next couple summers, Jeff took a few training jobs from people around the local area as well as taking a couple horses that were given to him, putting time on them, and then finding them new homes.  Yet he realized that in order to expand his new business venture he needed a formal education.  In the summer of 2009, Jeff enrolled in the Apprenticeship Program of trainer/clinician Ken McNabb.

After 3 weeks of intense training and instruction on the Powderhorn Ranch in Douglas, Wyoming, Jeff came back home having completed the Apprentice Level, or first level, of Ken’s Apprenticeship Program.

Jeff has taken what he learned from his own experiences, and from his time learning from McNabb, and built a small horse training business. He splits his time between the Alpena area and Sault Ste. Marie where he attends college at Lake Superior State University.      

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